One Nap Schedule Question + Milk Question

patchen30

If your LO is on one nap, how do you decide when to put him/her down, especially if he/she is an early riser?  My LO wakes up between 6-6:30am, so the nap is usually around 11:30am when I'd like it to be closer to 12:30pm. 6 hours of awake time seems like a lot though, and then we'd have a shorter amount of awake time before bed (7pm) so it seems uneven.  If LO could sleep in a little later problem solved, but that doesn't seem to be in the cards. 

Also, b/c of the trickiness of feeding lunch before vs. after, I've been cutting out a midday bottle so he just has a morning bottle and bedtime bottle (about 15 oz total), plus a 4 oz yogurt.  Is that enough milk/calcium?

morsey2011

She just started taking one nap a day the past few days. She wakes up around 7:30-8 and I've been putting her down around 1 or 2, just depending on her mood. I know this will all change next week when work starts back and she will be having to wake up around 7. 

kujayhawkgirl

We are pretty much on the same schedule as you, excpet Abby does wait to go down for a nap until 12:30. Some days it's not easy to get her to wait until 12:30, but we just get her preoccupied the best that we can. We typically give her lunch at noon.

As far as the milk goes, she basically gets one bottle at 6:30am, one at noon with lunch, and a little at 3ish with snack, and one at dinner at 6pm. So I would say 3-4 bottles and average about 15oz a day of milk.

blu-eyedwife

I stopped worry about "hours awake" a long time ago.  When he was littler he always seemed to be much less able to stay awake as long as most babies his age (so he'd need a nap every hour, while most could go 1.5).  I just have always gone off of his attitude.  When he seemed tired, cranky, clumsy, I'd put him down for a nap.  Now he lets me know when he's ready for a nap, so it seems to have worked out well.  I don't have a nap fighter, I have a child who knows when he needs sleep and is happy to get there.

During the week, he's usually up around 6:30 and has a nap at daycare at 12:30.  For the longest time that did not fly at home.  In fact, once we tried to keep him up till 12:30 and he fell asleep in his lunch.  So at home, we'd put him down earlier than that.

On the weekends lately he's been sleeping in till 7:30/8, so now his naps tend to be 12:30/1ish.

 

Can't help with the milk - I still nurse twice a day, so I don't worry about his calcium intake.  He does get 2 cups of milk a day in addition to that though.